Dear hackers, I'm in a dilemma (more like a trilemma,
actually). While following the 5.x and 6.x development cycle I
observed that the default timecounter varies from one machine from
another (for instance on my home desktop which is an AMD Athlon 2400+
it uses ACPI-fast, whereas on my Cen
vg> I wrote a piece of software that has to get the current
vg> timestamp, one way or the other, a huge number of times per
vg> second. Apart from the empyrical tests one can perform to
vg> find out the timekeeping scheme with the less performance
vg> impact, is there any rule of thumb as to what c
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 06:09:26PM +0200, Vlad GALU wrote:
> I wrote a piece of software that has to get the current
> timestamp, one way or the other, a huge number of times per second.
> Apart from the empyrical tests one can perform to find out the
> timekeeping scheme with the less per
>From: David Malone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>The TSC is always fastest, but unfortunately under some circumstances
>it can't be trusted (if your CPU has throttle modes to save power
>or on some SMP systems where the two TSCs in each CPU give different
>values).
If I remember correctly, all the SMP CP
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